Saturday, September 9, 2017
A spot-on parody of the retro-style of film noir in a hilarious send-up of our ever-growing post-modern obsession with social media and technology, Fishtown – A Hipster Noir reaffirms Trib…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:03PMA ten-year account of the failed pursuit of his Hollywood dreams, Gene Duffy’s As the Matzo Ball Turns – The Musical is an ambitious stage adaptation of the eponymous 2012 autobiographic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AMFriday, September 8, 2017
Brainchild of Director Brenna Geffers and Designer Thom Weaver, the newly-formed Die-Cast makes its public premiere in the 2017 Fringe Festival with an arresting re-envisioning of the rarely…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:20PMThursday, September 7, 2017
Seen through the lens of the popular phenomenon of the TV game show, Found Theater Company’s latest ensemble-devised Fringe offering, Game Show Show, considers the ethical dilemma of how f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
The banality of bourgeois life, the futile desperation to find meaning in mundane existence, the trivial chatter and vapid clichés used to fill the emptiness of everyday being, and the fail…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMThursday, August 31, 2017
Three of the most enthusiastic veterans of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival are each doing not one, but two shows this year. Jenna Kuerzi finishes out the final installment of On the Rocks�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12AMFriday, August 11, 2017
Featured this summer in producer Ed Miller’s No Ransom To Be Paid four-part series at Pangea, the presented works of writer/composer/musician/actor Erik Ransom include songs from More Than…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:38PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Conceived by Composer and Director Jaime Lozano as a loving tribute to the women in his life and his matriarchal upbringing, A Never-Ending Line, produced by Maribel Escobosa, Martha Orendai…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Taking its name from the romantic wartime ballad famously recorded by Marlene Dietrich in 1945, and which, in its earlier German and English versions, had become uniquely popular with both N…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52PMMonday, August 7, 2017
Part of the first Summer Family Theater Festival at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Gruff!, a co-presentation by Vital Theatre Company and Doppelskope, is everything that great children’s theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53AMSunday, August 6, 2017
In the world premiere of A Real Boy, presented by Ivy Theatre Company in association with Athena Theatre at 59E59, playwright Stephen Kaplan significantly reimagines Italian writer Carlo Col…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMSaturday, August 5, 2017
The rise and fall of the largely forgotten 19th-century American artist John Banvard is the subject of Georama, an irresistible bio-musical by West Hyler (book) and Matt Schazt (book, music,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32AMSunday, July 30, 2017
Since 2011, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has presented one play a year in its “Extreme Shakespeare” series. The concept is to try to recreate in part the process believed to hav…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39PMSaturday, July 29, 2017
From its origins in L. Frank Baum’s1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to its adaptation in MGM’s blockbuster 1939 film The Wizard of Oz to its annual TV broadcast on CBS beginning in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Now in production at People’s Light, Ken Ludwig’s Moon over Buffalo, directed by Pete Pryor, contains all the expected elements of a farce: there’s mistaken identity; insult humor; imp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PMFrom antiquity to the present, tragedy and drama to absurdism and comedy, masterpieces by classic playwrights to experimental ensemble-devised works by local artists, the 2017 Philadelphia F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMSaturday, July 22, 2017
The first in Soulpepper Theatre Company’s three-part musical celebration of the history of diversity in New York – The Melting Pot pays tribute to Lower Manhattan, from Battery Park …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40PMFriday, July 21, 2017
Ancient sea lore meets Sixties beach party in Night Tide, a new musical parody by Taylor Tash (book and lyrics) and Nathania Wibowo (music), based on Curtis Harrington’s 1961 B-movie thril…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer committed the shocking murders of seventeen men, involving necrophilia, dismemberment, cannibalism, and the preservation of the victims’ body parts. A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:17PMSunday, July 16, 2017
Adapted from the verses of beloved children’s book author and poet Dennis Lee – known to generations of fans as “Canada’s Father Goose” – Soulpepper Theatre Company’s ensem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13PMThe avant-garde work and Zen convictions of 20th-century American composer John Cage are the inspiration for Soulpepper Theatre Company’s ensemble-devised piece Cage, performed in this mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
Deserving recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor, or modern-day Faust who sold his soul to capture Hollywood’s biggest honor? Emilie Landmann (book), Carrie Morgan (book and lyrics),…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:59PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Back at Manayunk’s Venice Island Performing Arts Center, The Summer Club celebrated its third anniversary on a very hot night with an even hotter performance. With yesterday’s total brea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05PMThursday, July 6, 2017
The first-ever stage adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, written by Vern Thiessen and directed by Albert Schultz for Canada’s Soulpepper Theatre Company, is also the re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PMMonday, June 26, 2017
Gun violence, socio-religious intolerance, same-sex marriage, and gay adoption are some of the current hot-button issues that tear apart a family, polarize a community, and create a media fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMSunday, June 25, 2017
Feeling overwhelmed by the demands of work, everyday chores, and the incessant pings of your digital devices? Then don’t just find the time, but make the time, for getting together, catchi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PMSaturday, June 24, 2017
This year marks the centenary of the beginning of America’s involvement in World War I in 1917, and The Sheen Center has recognized it with the stellar world premiere of Death Comes for th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:31AMThursday, June 22, 2017
The world-premiere full-stage production of d4rkly your retrorockets fl4re, written by Steven Mark Tenney and co-directed with his sister Susan Tenney, is presented by The Constellation Proj…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
In his banter with the audience during last night’s musical homage to Swing, Big Bands, and ‘The Rat Pack’ at Manayunk’s Venice Island Performing Arts Center, Jeff Coon, Executive Di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01PMMonday, June 19, 2017
The life of Eva Perón is the stuff legends, and rock operas, are made of: a rags-to-riches story of a poor illegitimate child from provincial Argentina, whose ambitious determination, seduc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Economic self-interest, an ‘inconvenient truth,’ a ruthless politician, a whistleblower, ‘fake news,’ closed-door meetings, a bureaucratic cover-up, the refusal to work together for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PM 
